Everyone has emotions: Children are people and they have feelings too. Many times children have a hard time expressing themselves and may either laugh or cry to let you know how they are feeling. Expressions on a child’s face can also tell you how they are feeling. What are Emotions: What are emotions? How do…
How to help your anxious child:
Anxiety in Children: Every child may be anxious at times, it may a test they are nervous about, a doctor visit or just fearing the unknown. However, there are always some children that you will find perpetually anxious, these children need your assistance and reassurance to flourish in the classroom at home and beyond. Of…
How to stop tantrums
Tantrums are never fun, no one likes them or wants to deal with them. Learn how to stop tantrums before they can even think of taking place. The start of the tantrum: Lolly went to the store with her mother, as they were walking down the aisle she spotted a candy bar that seemed to…
Want to learn some magical skills?
The magic in soft skills: Charlie is a magician. Just kidding! Though he fools us all, for he certainly acts like one. In reality Charlie got the magic touch. He is the one whom everyone trusts and loves. Whenever something needs to get done everyone turns to Charlie. He gets it done and completes it…
What to say everyday:
Things to say everyday to your children: We say a lot of things to our children everyday we tell them what to do, where to go and when to clean up. It is time to make the things we say memorable and lasting. Remember when a teacher or parent told you something and you got…
Teachers- make the most of your day!
How to get things done: We all want to squeeze the most we can from our day, however we all just got the same 24 hours. How is it that some people can accomplish the world in one day while others are simply floundering? We got to prioritize our time! What does that mean? People…
How to calm a crying child
Whoops, there they go again crying. Your frustration level just goes up and you feel like yelling, running or just burying yourself with a book or chocolate. Yet, you have to deal with it, calm yourself and calm the child. Now what? When dealing with moody, anxious and whiny children it is not easy to…
Catch their interest
Is it alive? Can it move? Want to be that successful teacher whom everyone admires and all the students love? Want to know what the favorite teacher trick is? You need to make your students excited to come to class to learn. Simple as that, you need to capture their interest. Capturing children’s interest is…
Communication verses Instructions
Some talk is cheap…others are not Look, we all want to build a relationship with our children and students. Talking to them and having great conversations is one way to do so. However, there are many different types of conversation with children and they are not all the same. Think about it. When you are…
How to teach children to communicate
Why teaching children to talk is so important: Did you talk to your child/ student today? The real talk, not the hi- how are you speech? Communication builds relationships! Yup, by simply talking to your child you are building your relationship with him/her. We communicate to connect with others, (whether it is verbal or non…